Penske Media, publisher of Rolling Stone and The Hollywood Reporter, has filed an antitrust suit against Google in federal court in the District of Columbia, alleging Google's AI Overviews illegally use its reporting and depress traffic. The complaint says affiliate revenue on its sites has dropped by more than a third since the end of 2024. Google called the claims meritless.
Former economy minister Rafizi says extortionists demanded US$100,000 (about RM420,500), claiming to hold a pornographic video of him; another person received a similar demand, and a police report has been made. Rafizi suspects an old video edited with his face rather than costly AI work, and believes the real aim is hacking his devices to fabricate bigger smears.
The Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) referred barrister Muhammad Mujeebur Rahman to the Bar Standards Board after finding he cited a fictitious Court of Appeal judgment generated by ChatGPT, then insisted it was genuine on the strength of "ChatGPT research". The tribunal found he had not deliberately submitted false material and warned all lawyers to check citations.
More than 500GB of source code, work logs and internal communications from Geedge Networks and a Chinese Academy of Sciences lab behind China's Great Firewall leaked on 11 September 2025. According to the documents, Geedge provided censorship and surveillance tools, including a gateway the Epoch Times describes as machine-learning-based, to Kazakhstan, Ethiopia, Myanmar, Pakistan and an undisclosed country codenamed A24.
A video shared on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok showing El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele announcing a joint plan with the US to go after Gustavo Petro and Nicolás Maduro is a deepfake, a fact-check found: it alters an older Bukele TikTok video about household utility bills, and a detection tool rated the audio 99% likely fake.
